POLS 2950 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Xenophobia
27 Sep 2016
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Nations are an imagined community with a sens of belonging. Identity loyalty state and the nation nation has right to self determination weber nation has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force many people believe in the idea of nation state may not always be present. Canada vs first nations don"t want separate states within nation. Us no taxation with out representation separated from britian. Pro slavery vs no slavery idea of nation almost collapsed. States nation -public policy: public stat days ex terry fox day. Ruling elite will use it to concentrate power. Access to indian ocean and close to middle east. Problem may arise due to the specific clans that are concentrated regionally. The clan leader were seen as the leaders hard to build unified state across the clans. Part of ethiopian land people were historically somali. 2004 abdullahi yusuf becomes president tries to run it from external territory. No idea of nation: problem for state integrity.
